Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
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I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
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People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
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It's tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it's another artist.
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You adhere to a philosophy, but part of the philosophy I have is that I don't want to be too doggone inflexible that I miss a good player.
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Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
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All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to deal with fame, money and playing so many roles, I lost myself. I said, 'Who am I?' And I wrote my first book to deal with that, 'The Ragman's Son.'
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It's a rare thing to find somebody you can work with, work off of, and have fun with.
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Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.
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The human condition: lost in thought.
